Invasion Prologue
Client: Vodorod Pictures
Creative Director: Alexey Dimkov
Capabilities: Film Design / Opening Titles / Intro Sequence
Project Summary
In the beginning of 2020, the space blockbuster "Invasion" by Fyodor Bondarchuk was released in Russia. Our team was working on a 3-minute full-cg intro for the movie — these were the first titles of this scale in Russian film industry, which, in addition, can also be called an independent artwork with a separate plot. First of all, we offer you to take a look at the full version of the prologue, where we visualized the memory of the spaceship Sol, and travelled through the alleys of his memories of the key events of the movie "Attraction".
Making of Prologue
In order to make an idea with travelling though Sol’s mind readable for the viewer, we decided to visually emphasize the nature of his artificial intelligence and chose a special style of image: the space of Sol’s thoughts and memory is seen as a cloud of digital points. As we travel through this space, we see recognizable images collected from these points, frozen in time. This approach has required a massive deal of effort and thought, and we are happy to present you with a making-of where we share the technical challenges we faced and the ways we solved them.
Stillframes
And here is some bonus stuff — fullres 4K production stillsframes.
Storyboard
As usual, our project starts with a classic storyboard, which we draw on paper in pencil in the old fashioned way. Here, for example, is some frames of storyboard of the Prologue:
Creative director: Alexey Dimkov
Executive Producer: Timofey Penkov
Chief Technical Officer: Dmitrii Dolgikh
Producer/coordinator: Alina Kilevaya
dobro° team:
Kirill Vygranenko, Yuliana Griganskaya, Alexander Guryev, Vladimir Kirillov, Tatyana Krasotenko, Victor Marchenko, Anton Mishenin, Stepan Neupokoev, Anna Pozdeeva, Marina Pustovaya, Dmitriy Rodin, Arseniy Sozinov, Arthur Terletskiy, Alexander Tokar, Artem Khabakhpashev, Anaida Khovrenkova, Anna Boyarkina, Dmitriy Vandyshev
IT support: Vadim Dobrazhan
Hardware Support: Smartex
Special thanks to: Indar Dzhendubaev, Igor Kozitsyn, Sergey Movchan, Artur Gadzhiev
